St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-02
EVENTS IN DULUTH.
st. Louis County Makes a Good Show
ing on the Tax Books.
A BIG CATCH OF LAKE FISH
The Propeller Gogebic Is Now Ice
Bound--A Railroad Man Gets His
Promotion.


/ ditOr Smith this afternoon compiled a
! statement giving the valuation, rate OF
taxation, and taxes for st. Louis county
for 1887. Following are extracts: Total
valuation of real property in the county,
$50, 467, S66; total valuation of real and
personal property, $3.50, 1876; total
, taxes, $454 ,949.53. The total tax rate of
the city of Duluth is 25.5 mills. The
, total valuation of real property is s10,
,377; total valuation of real and per-
sonal property, s13.631 ,23O; total taxes,
S347, 1856.
THE FISHING SEASON.
The fishing season of 1887 closed to-
day with the laying up of the tug Evils
ton. The season has been particularly
good, over 10000 pounds being mar
keted here. Two hundred men have
been employed. White fish have been
scarce this season, but are gradually
coming back.
THE GOGEBIC ICE-BOUND.
Private dispatches announce the
safety of the propeller GOgebic, bound
down with grain from Port Arthur.
After leaving that port she encOunt-
cred heavy weather and ran into Rock
port harbOr for shelter, where she is
frozen in and will have to winter there.
GONE UP HIGHER.
B. Haskell, foreman of the Northern
Pacific railroad shops at Rice'S Point,
has been promoted to the place of mas
ter mechanic of the Montana division.
LITTLE BITS OF NEWS.
DR.. Z. ii. Graft leaves to-day for
much-needed rest. During his absence
from the city he will tour through the
old world extensively, spending Christ
mas i'll Dresden. where he will meet the
NettletOnS and Miss Collins, of Duluth,
who are stopping there. From there he
will journey to COnstantinOple, Vienna,
and thence to Damascus and Baalbec in
Syria. He will travel through Egypt,
going up as far as the first cataract of
the Nile; will visit Jerusalem and the
Holy Land, returning to Duluth in the
fall of 1888. DR.. Graft has been sim
gularly successful in professional and
speculative life, and has gathered to-
gether comfortable fortune of nearly
half million.
A new corporation, to be known as the
Duluth Land and Warehouse com
pany," was organized Yesterday, COM
posed of the following we'll known gen
tlemen: Frank Burke, Jr., c. III.
Graves, }. ID. Ensign and NJ. j. Forbes.
The capital stock is fixed at 500, 900, and
the limit of Indebtedness at 100000. A
general storage and forwarding bust
ness is to be transacted. Deals will also
be made in dock and warehouse prop
erty. The company commences business
Jan. |.
Ii is pretty generally believed that
Prof. Phelps collections of statistics is
a tleluSiOn and snare, and that he does
but little actual work of any deScrip-
tion. The statistics which he gives out
are correct, but he gets all the credit
and ignores his source of Information
the reporters of the city press.
The Hall-SwanstrOm wedding last
night at OneOta was q brilliant affair."
and number of Duluthians attended
in carriages. Ten acres of valuable
city property. also Il lot and residence,
were among the substantial presents
from the fathers of the contracting
parties.
Flour receipts for the year SO far are
,335, 932 barrels, and the shipments
were !, 33322 125 barrels. This. is an in
crease in receipts over 1856 of about
10000 barrels.
The Duluth fire department has cost
the taxpayers of the city sl20, 149.SS in
the last five. years, and some of the
heaviest contributors are investigating
Conductor Byers. of the st. Paul and
Duluth road. had foot badly smashed
yesterday. This is his third accident
during the year.
Invitations are out for the Kitchi
Gammi ball, the sOciety's annual sue
cess.
The Duluth Curling club is recent
association of resident ScOtchmen.
Mast, of cartoon fame, is to appear
shortly at the opera house.
Three small fires yesterday kept the
department busy.
HARRIsON-s REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE.
Harrisons real estate exchange has over
$50, 900 inside property in Superior. Can
be bought at one-thfrd of its real value, as Ii
must be sold. Hotel St. Louis building.